LOWELL, Ark. — J.B. Hunt Transport Services will open new transload facilities to transfer cargo between international and domestic 53-foot containers in Seattle and Laredo, Texas, giving it facilities at four of the nation’s largest ocean ports as well as the largest land port of entry into the U.S.
“The complexities of international shipping continue to impact how our customers bring freight into the domestic supply chain,” Darren Field, president of intermodal and executive vice president at J.B. Hunt, said in a press release. “By growing the reach of our transload service and managing the drayage and loading processes for our customers, we can provide new levels of process oversight and visibility into their freight activity, particularly the critical first-mile segment.”
The Laredo facility recently began operations, and the facility in Tacoma, Wash., serving freight arriving in both Tacoma and Seattle, is expected to open in November. It will complement a container-only service launched with BNSF in August between its Tacoma South facility and Chicago [see “BNSF and J.B. Hunt to launch service …,” Trains News Wire, July 27, 2022] The Laredo facility helps address the need for transloading that is often required for freight entering and exiting the U.S. because of regulations, carrier and driver availability, and domestic capacity demand, J.B. Hunt says.
J.B. Hunt opened its first transload facility in New Jersey in November 2021 and opened a facility in Commerce, Calif., in July to handle traffic from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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